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MURRAY BORRELLO: >> Ghost Ranch is noted because Georgia O'Keefe
lived and worked here and did a lot of her art here.
It's around twenty-one thousand acres,
and it's in the high desert in Northern New Mexico.
It's fairly isolated from any other towns around.
It's a perfect place to bring students to really
try to get in touch with themselves,
what it is that they want out of life,
what kind of passion they have to do what,
and really kind of do a self-discovery.
ASHLEY YUILL: >> I really thought that becoming part of the Center for Responsible Leadership
would really help me realize who I am, and what my passions are
and what I should do with those passions, and it will give me a plan and opportunities to do so.
ELIZABETH WAYNE: >> I find a lot of things really really interesting, and I wanted to just...
I needed a little bit of help identifying that one thing, that I just really felt a strong passion for.
We're going to meet people that you won't meet any place else. We're going to go to communities you will never have been to.
We're going to think about, and encounter, and work, and interact with people that are, that you've never experienced.
It's a remarkable place.
And I think it's going to be one of the best weeks of your life.
I really had a great time with all the excursions we took.
We really did a lot with experiencing different cultures and different ways of life.
We didn't just sit in a classroom and listen to people talk.
MICHEAL VICKERY: >> We spent time going to historical sites.
We went to Bandolier National Park to experience what it looks like when a civilization and society is gone.
and use that to think about what kind of choices we face now that affect our future
and sustainability, of the way of life of people want to live.
TAYLOR BOEHLER: >> They didn't have the technology that we have now but yet they were still
surviving in the wilderness on top of mountains, no less
and they lived for thousands of years there.
RYAN CRAMER: >> We don't know where they went.
They may have migrated, they may have been killed off by disease or other forces.
Maybe they ran out of food.
I think what it tries to teach us though, is that we need to have a lot more community, and focus on each other,
and on our impact in the world.
And if we don't it will be just one big national park.
MICHEAL VICKERY: >> We also spent time being exposed to cultures unlike our own
to have the students become personally aware of the fact that
the world is not just made up of people like them
it's made up of people who are very unlike them,
and the goals that they have have to take into account the diversity of the world.
So this is our main grounds, I guess we can walk in
this is where our temple is, where the golden dome is
and this is where we have our kind of community hall.
ALAINA DAGUE: >> The excursion that I found most insightful was the trip we took to the Sikh temple.
I haven't been exposed to too many other religions, coming from a small Michigan town, and to participate in yoga with them and meditation was really really interesting.
ERICA ADAMS: >> What I got out of it was that we all
maybe have different religions, and we all believe different things,
but deep down we all have the same needs and values, but there are just different ways of expressing it.
MURRAY BORRELLO: >> Going to the Okeh Owingay pueblo was actually an interesting dichotomy of,
who are these people, what are their traditions, what are their beliefs,
and you know, how does this relate to the colonial and the European imperialism that occurred when we came into this country.
ASHLEY YUILL: >> It was interesting to experience a different culture that was in our own country.
These Native Americans, they allowed us to watch their religious buffalo dance.
And watching something so ancient and sacred, it had a really strong impact on me.
SHELBY GRAY: >> Going to the festival, and watching the dances, that was really interesting,
because it was just a chance to look into the way other people live,
and just being, you know learning how to accept and appreciate people for how they are, and not thinking that everyone has to be like you.
Nick Piccolo: >> The main takeaway I would want for students, both through Ghost Ranch, and in the college in general is that I'm empowered.
I make choices that I own, and in those choices I can make a difference.
I think that a little bit like the campground philosophy
we all want to leave this world a better place than when we came in,
and I think that we've helped equip our students to be able to do that.
BURT DUGAN: >> What you're supposed to go away from here is, liking each other a lot,
and being relieved to know that you're not the only people of your generation
that think like you do, and feel like you do, and care like you do.
And you're the hope for your own future,
but you're going to have a lot of help out there too, you know.
So you're supposed to, not get discouraged,
and know that the strength you've shown here isÉis common.
You just have to find it.
In all the noise in the world, it's hard to tell that this is common.
But this is common, and this is what people want.
So, you're not just this little voice crying in the wilderness.
You'll go back and find that you have a lot of company, if you just now know what the questions are,
and what it is that you need to ask.
And there will be days when you'll be really discouraged too, I promise you that.
But, that you will not be alone out there.
There are lots of people that want the world to be like you want it to be.
So, good luck to you!